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Dynamics 365 Application Development

By : Deepesh Somani, Nishant Rana
Book Image

Dynamics 365 Application Development

By: Deepesh Somani, Nishant Rana

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM is the most trusted name in enterprise-level customer relationship management. The latest version of Dynamics CRM comes with the important addition of exciting features guaranteed to make your life easier. It comes straight off the shelf with a whole new frontier of updated business rules, process enhancements, SDK methods, and other enhancements. This book will introduce you to the components of the new designer tools, such as SiteMap, App Module, and Visual Designer for Business Processes. Going deeper, this book teaches you how to develop custom SaaS applications leveraging the features of PowerApps available in Dynamics 365. Further, you will learn how to automate business processes using Microsoft Flow, and then we explore Web API, the most important platform update in Dynamics 365 CRM. Here, you'll also learn how to implement Web API in custom applications. You will learn how to write an Azure-aware plugin to design and integrate cloud-aware solutions. The book concludes with configuring services using newly released features such as Editable grids, Data Export Service, LinkedIn Integration, Relationship Insights, and Live Assist
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Creating a task flow


Task flows can be created by following these steps in Dynamics 365:

  1. Go to Settings | Processes:
  1. On the Actions toolbar, click New:
  1. Go to the Create Process dialog box, and select the Run process as a task flow option:
  1. Click on OK and Task Flow Designer will open in a new window, which will appear similar to the Business Process Flow designer. 
  2. Go to the right-hand side of the screen, drag the Components tab from page and post which you can drop it on canvas:
  1. To add a name to a page, click on a Page in the Properties tab, type a new name, and click the Apply button:
  1. To add a branch to the task flow, drag the Condition component from the Components tab and drop it on the + sign in the appropriate spot:
  1. To set properties for the condition, click on the Condition, and set the properties in the Properties tab:

1. Select source entity

2. Select fields from the entity that needs to be checked in the condition

3. Select the operator and the value to be compared

4. Then click on the Apply...